h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I don't know what to say. I just...Oh look, I'm not even going to bother. Read it for yourself, as words fail me.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/conservative-peer-lord-james-of-blackheath-im-a-money-washer-not-a-money-launderer-14995248.html


What are they putting in the water in the House of Lords these days?

Suds?

Ohhhh it's the birthday girl! Happy birthday!

(But...seriously. "Foundation X"? It's like the most outlandish kind of thriller...)

"...a shadowy group has contacted him with an offer to help solve the UK's economic problems...
Lord James claims the group, which he referred to as 'Foundation X', has more gold on hand than all the world's bullion reserves combined."

"This is too big an issue. I am just an ageing, obsessive old Peer and I am easily dispensable, but getting to the truth is not."

I think the only bit of his speech that has the ring of truth is the bit where he says:

"For the past twenty weeks I have been engaged in a very strange dialogue". Yep, I wouldn't doubt *that* for an instant.

Even I,. as a person who is not unacustomed to strange dialogues, would hastlen to ad this just.... sounds like someone who's fallen for an internet scam

I love the bit about the gold reserves...he starts waffling on about an article in National Geographic 12 years ago and the Vatican Bank, and how Foundation X have more gold than anyone realised had actually ever been mined in history...

Which would just bring down the value of gold immensely if it hit the market, wouldn't it?

I did a little checking on this gentleman's story. Fascinating. Some people in the US were speculating about the organisation Lord James was referring to...

Its address appeared to be Filene's Basement, a discount fashion store in downtown Manhattan.